Paper Trail

The dream of every IT department is the paperless office; but we appear to be using as much paper as ever. 

There was a greater mystery in our Moscow office a few years ago when our paper use rose dramatically & we couldn't work out why.  We weren't planning more plans... we weren't buying more buys & we certainly weren't writing more letters.

We finally discovered the source of the leak.  One of our security professionals who guarded our precious computers at night was printing off books from the wonderful world wide web.  The CPT (cost per title) was around $50; higher if he was using colour paper.  It would have been cheaper to buy him signed first editions.

But as we applaud all efforts at self-improvement in our miserable media business we merely offered to buy him the publications in question if he promised to close his private publishing house.